Israeli forces breached Syria’s border early Tuesday, advancing a short distance into Maariya village in the Yarmouk Basin area, west of Daraa Province, before withdrawing hours later.
A SANA correspondent in Daraa reported that three Israeli armoured vehicles crossed into the village toward the road linking Maariya with Koya village, where they remained deployed for about two hours before pulling back toward the outskirts of Abidin village.
Muwaffaq Mahmoud, head of the Abidin and Maariya Municipal Council, told SANA that Israeli forces’ presence was limited to a “temporary deployment and withdrawal without any friction with residents.”
He added that the movement occurred in farmland surrounding the village, and that the situation returned to normal after the forces withdrew.
Israeli troops had entered Maariya in a similar incursion last Monday, detaining two young men who were grazing livestock and releasing them the following evening.
In continued violation of the 1974 Disengagement of Forces Agreement, as well as international law and relevant UN resolutions, the Israeli forces’ maintains repeated aggressions against Syrian territory.
Syria condemns these violations and calls on the international community to take urgent measures to stop them, the report said.
